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Book Synopsis
These essays analyze the development of the political theory of treason from its beginning in Roman Law to its transformation in the Germanic custom of the early Middle Ages.

Table of Contents
  • Preface and Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • I. The Crime of Majesty in Roman Public Law
  • II. The Idea of Majesty in Roman Political Thought
  • III. The Idea of Fidelity in Germanic Customary Law
  • IV. Crimen Laesae Maiestatis in the Lex Romana Wisigothorum
  • V. Contractual Allegiance vs. Deferential Allegiance in Visigothic Law
  • VI. The Public Law of the Visigothic Code
  • VII. Blasphemy in the Lex Romana Curiensis
  • VIII. Treason and Related Offenses in the Anglo-Saxon Dooms
  • IX. The Public Law of the Ripuarian, Alamannic, and Bavarian Codes
  • X. Notes on Public Law: Ostrogothic, Burgundian, Lombard, North German
  • XI. Review of Ernst Levy, West Roman Vulgar Law: The Law of Property
  • XII. The Literature on Treason in Roman Public Law
  • XIII. The Literature on Public Law in Germanic Custom
  • Index

Treason in Roman and Germanic Law

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      Publisher: University of Texas Press
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 01/01/1965
      ISBN13: 9780292729605, 978-0292729605
      ISBN10: 029272960X

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      These essays analyze the development of the political theory of treason from its beginning in Roman Law to its transformation in the Germanic custom of the early Middle Ages.

      Table of Contents
      • Preface and Acknowledgments
      • Introduction
      • I. The Crime of Majesty in Roman Public Law
      • II. The Idea of Majesty in Roman Political Thought
      • III. The Idea of Fidelity in Germanic Customary Law
      • IV. Crimen Laesae Maiestatis in the Lex Romana Wisigothorum
      • V. Contractual Allegiance vs. Deferential Allegiance in Visigothic Law
      • VI. The Public Law of the Visigothic Code
      • VII. Blasphemy in the Lex Romana Curiensis
      • VIII. Treason and Related Offenses in the Anglo-Saxon Dooms
      • IX. The Public Law of the Ripuarian, Alamannic, and Bavarian Codes
      • X. Notes on Public Law: Ostrogothic, Burgundian, Lombard, North German
      • XI. Review of Ernst Levy, West Roman Vulgar Law: The Law of Property
      • XII. The Literature on Treason in Roman Public Law
      • XIII. The Literature on Public Law in Germanic Custom
      • Index

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